Which should not surprise anyone who has followed the team this year. Austin Barnes was only allowed 269 plate appearances but he made the most of them. Only six catchers in LAD history have had at least 250 plate appearances and an OPS+ over 130.

Austin Barnes is one of them.

If you take away HOF Mike Piazza, using OPS+, Austin Barnes just had the 3rd best offensive season ever for a LAD catcher.

Those of us who watched Joe Ferguson tend to forget what an offensive force he was as a catcher.